Patrick Wiggins, Tooele, UT, USA, reports his discovery of a possible supernova (mag about 12.8) on an unfiltered CCD frame taken 2017 May 14.2383 UT using a 0.35-m f/5.5 reflector near Erda, UT, USA. The new
object is located at
R.A. 20h34m44.24s, Decl. +60°11’35.9” (equinox 2000.0),
about 153” NW of the center of NGC 6946. The discovery image was posted temporarily at URLhttp://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/ngc6946-1.jpg
Wiggins notes that nothing was visible at this position on an image taken on May 12.

Definetly a new object! Shot a short BVI sequence (BVI 3X45sec, 3x30sec,& 3x30sec 2x2 bin) just as it got light. Shot with a C-11 at F/6 with Astrodon photometric BVI filters. Here are the un-transformed magnitudes from the fully calibrated exposures:

AT 2017eaw,2457888.0028414354,13.450,0.020,B,NO,STD,115,12.385,126,13.766,1.129,NA,X18779ASY,na
AT 2017eaw,2457888.0035821763,13.423,0.019,B,NO,STD,115,12.380,126,13.760,1.128,NA,X18779ASY,na
AT 2017eaw,2457888.0043229167,13.445,0.022,B,NO,STD,115,12.402,126,13.767,1.127,NA,X18779ASY,na
AT 2017eaw,2457888.0053125001,13.143,0.021,V,NO,STD,115,12.322,126,13.388,1.127,NA,X18779ASY,na
AT 2017eaw,2457888.0058796294,13.102,0.022,V,NO,STD,115,12.325,126,13.366,1.126,NA,X18779ASY,na
AT 2017eaw,2457888.0064467592,13.150,0.025,V,NO,STD,115,12.331,126,13.340,1.126,NA,X18779ASY,na
AT 2017eaw,2457888.0072453702,12.753,0.043,I,NO,STD,115,12.769,126,13.422,1.125,NA,X18779ASY,na
AT 2017eaw,2457888.0078125000,12.680,0.044,I,NO,STD,115,12.757,126,13.418,1.125,NA,X18779ASY,na
AT 2017eaw,2457888.0083796298,12.680,0.048,I,NO,STD,115,12.755,126,13.403,1.125,NA,X18779ASY,na

I'll upload this data transformed once we get a designation that in uploadable to the AASVO database. The average for my transformed magnitudes are:

B:13.298, V:13.155, and I:12.715

I might try to take a spectum tomorrow night on this object with my LISA spectroscope on the CDK17.

There was a poor sequence for the NGC 6946 FOV which I have now updated with APASS & Hendon data. As of the moment (05/14/17 ~ 1942 UT) this object has not made it into the VSX data base yet so you will have to use the coordiantes of this target to secure a chart from the VSP.

In AAVSO Alert Notice 577 on SN 2017eaw, I inadvertantly credited David Boyd's CCD observations of the supernova to David Blane. I have corrected the text of the Alert Notice on the webpage, and I have notified Dan Green at CBAT, as two of David's observations were included in CBET 4390. I apologize sincerely to David for my error!